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Tuesday, 14 September 2010

Kentucky Man Apparently Egged On

You know, as a Canadian, I've never quite felt comfortable with American gun laws. How do the majority of Canadians feel about guns? Well, our government has encountered significant opposition to its plans to do away with the so-called long-gun registry. The biggest opposition comes from the nation's chiefs of police.

Here in Canada, when some other driver cuts you off you lean on the horn and give them the finger and maybe even yell a well chosen expletive out the car window.

I'd be afraid to take similar action if I was driving though certain American states. You know the ones. Where they throw in a free gun rack with your new pick up truck purchase. Imagine flipping the bird and telling someone where to go and the response is a well-aimed blast from a shotgun.

I came across a story recently that reinforced my concerns.

Some guy in a rural Kentucky trailer park - that should have been my first clue - mortally shot his wife, his step-kid and three neighbours because he didn't like how she prepared his breakfast. This is no joke. Apparently he didn't like his eggs. Bizarre? Eggs-actly.

Imagine living with this guy. It sounds as though he had no sunny side. I'll bet he was a real hard-boiled individual. He could have cracked at any minute. Being around him would have been like walking on egg shells. His wife must have felt like she had a yoke around her neck. If you ask me I think this guy must have been hungover or somewhat fried. I mean shooting 5 people because you didn't like how your eggs were fixed? What's that all about?

And then he waited an hour for police to arrive - yep they move real quick down there in rural Kentucky - before turning the gun on himself.

30 comments:

There is something wrong when you can buy your eggs, bacon and ammunition in the same store. As stupid as the whole long gun registry fiasco up here was, I'm still glad that we don't have a big gun culture in Canada. - G

We had a record snow fall a couple of years ago (20 inches... which is a lot for the part of Ohio I live in). Everything on Main Street in the town I live in was closed... except the gun store. (Because, when the snow gets deep, you're gonna want to be armed.)

Chris: 10 year olds!? My God that's ridiculous! They can't even drive, drink, or vote yet. After I saw your comment I went and read an article on this. Amazing. Good luck in consolidating what appears to be conflicting gun laws/legislation. Your MPs have their work cut out for them.

As the daughter of an SFPD officer, I grew up around guns. I know how to shoot them, clean them, and respect them. I am neither for nor against gun ownership by responsible people. But I think that people should have to be tested on and demonstrate knowledge of guns, and gun safety before they purchase one.

This reminds me of another true American story from right here in Colorado. A family was having breakfast in their trailer, and the husband told his wife he didn't like her pancakes. So she stabbed him to death, right in front of the kids. He fell face down into his pancakes, and they finished eating breakfast while waiting for the cops to arrive. True story. No shit. America's fucking crazy, NoName.

We just love our freedoms in America. And in a free society some people will abuse those freedoms. Of course, this guy was a nut (sorry I'm not good with the egg puns), and would have killed his family without the gun. The gun just made sure he made it into the papers.